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China: Something Must Burst
CHINA: SOMETHING MUST BURST “I know from a common sense financial standpoint that something has to burst. When a country is losing billions and billions and billions of dollars a year and when other countries are making hundreds of billions of dollars, something is going to burst” That was businessman Trump on America’s trade deficit […]
Will Japan Be the First to Test the Limits of Quantitative Easing?
WILL JAPAN BE THE FIRST TO TEST THE LIMITS OF QUANTITATIVE EASING? The Japanese stock market peaked in December 1989, marking the end of a period of economic expansion which briefly saw Japan eclipse the USA to become the world’s largest economy. Since its zenith, Japan has struggled. I wrote about this topic, in relation […]
Blind Robbery! How the Fed, Banks and Government Steal Our Money
BLIND ROBBERY! HOW THE FED, BANKS AND GOVERNMENT STEAL OUR MONEY Editor’s Note: Philipp’s terrific new book “Blind Robbery! How the Fed, Banks and Government Steal Our Money” is now available (Publisher: FinanzBuch Verlag (June 6, 2016)). You can find it at Amazon here. Below is the introduction. The book gives an excellent outline for beginners as […]
Rationalizing ‘Rational’
RATIONALIZING ‘RATIONAL’ Walter W. Heller was said to have been an “educator of Presidents.” As an economist and Presidential advisor in the inner circles of DC, Heller worked with more candidates and officeholders than perhaps any other man. As he himself described, his influence went all the way back to Adlai Stevenson and kept on […]
Chapter 7: Secrets, Ignorance and Lies: Money, Credit and Debt
CHAPTER 7: SECRETS, IGNORANCE AND LIES: MONEY, CREDIT AND DEBT. “The tyranny of fraud is not less oppressive than that of force.” John Taylor of Caroline, Virginia, 1814. Our system of money-creation was invented and developed during a time when war was seen as glorious, when the strong robbing and managing the weak was admired as […]
The Keys to Human Prosperity: Individual Liberty and Rule of Law
THE KEYS TO HUMAN PROSPERITY: INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY AND RULE OF LAW We live at time when, increasingly, the U.S. government operates in arbitrary and discretionary ways. Government regulatory agencies seemingly have unrestrained powers over land-use, business manufacturing and enterprise, the workplace and the environment under broad legislative mandates. And proposals are now frequently being made […]
Governments Create Monopolies and Cause Worker Exploitation, Not Free Markets
GOVERNMENTS CREATE MONOPOLIES AND CAUSE WORKER EXPLOITATION, NOT FREE MARKETS The world is threatened with a renewed wave of anti-capitalism and anti-business sentiments and policies. Many who cheered the demise of Soviet communism in the early 1990s, presumed that this meant that, by default, the case for free markets and competitive enterprise had won in […]
Mises.org: Keynes’s Critique of Econometrics is Surprisingly Good
MISES.ORG: KEYNES’S CRITIQUE OF ECONOMETRICS IS SURPRISINGLY GOOD In a recent article we had a brief look at Ragnar Frisch’s (1895–1973) vision of econometric model building. As mentioned, Frisch was the first economist chosen over Mises to win the Nobel Prize in 1969. In fact, there was a second one in the same year. Frisch won the […]
When the Game Changes
WHEN THE GAME CHANGES “In a free market, the price and quantity of an item are determined by the supply and demand for that item.” ‘The function and nature of markets’ on boundless.com. In their efforts to jam the square peg of financial theory into the round hole of human nature, economists have perpetrated some pretty stupid […]
The Road to Canossa
THE ROAD TO CANOSSA That the artificial interest rates in evidence in our hugely distorted capital and money markets can be made negative in nominal as well as in real terms is, alas, the curse of the modern age. Though entirely at odds with natural order – as we have repeatedly tried to make plain […]
Avoiding the Issue
AVOIDING THE ISSUE In the wake of the so-called ‘Panama Papers’ furore, the push-button issue of the One Percent being found able – OH! THE HORROR! – to shield some of its wealth from the taxman, regardless of the jurisdiction in which its members have chosen to set up shop, has predictably called forth bad […]
Quantitative to Qualitative–Is Unelected Nationalisation Next?
QUANTITATIVE TO QUALITATIVE – IS UNELECTED NATIONALISATION NEXT? Last year, in a paper entitled The Stock Market Crash Really Did Cause the Great Recession – Roger Farmer of UCLA argued that the collapse in the stock market was the cause of the Great Recession:- In November of 2008 the Federal Reserve more than doubled the monetary base […]
Interest Rates and Gold
INTEREST RATES AND GOLD It is commonly assumed that the gold price and interest rates move in opposite directions. In other words, a tendency towards higher interest rates is accompanied by a lower gold price. Like all assumptions about prices, sometimes it is true and sometimes not. The market today is all about synthetic gold, […]
The Triumph of the Invisible Hand
THE TRIUMPH OF THE INVISIBLE HAND “By virtue of exchange, one man’s prosperity is beneficial to all others.”…Frédéric Bastiat. It remains one of the most powerful metaphors in economics. In 1850 Frédéric Bastiat gave the world the story of the broken window. The son of a shopkeeper accidentally breaks a pane of glass in the shop. […]
Benn Steil: Why Is Paul Krugman Still Calling For Fiscal Stimulus?
BENN STEIL: WHY IS PAUL KRUGMAN STILL CALLING FOR FISCAL STIMULUS? Nobel economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is fond of mocking his critics for being ideologues rather than economists. In contrast, Krugman’s own policy prescriptions, he assures us, are based wholly on soundeconomic science. Case in point is the theory of liquidity traps, which goes back […]
